Libya’s electoral body proposes delaying presidential polls for 1 month
Libya’s High Electoral Commission on Wednesday proposed a new date for the country’s elections after it became certain that the presidential elections scheduled would be postponed on Friday.
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Libya’s electoral
On its Twitter account, Libya’s High Elections Commission published a statement saying it is proposing to postpone the presidential elections until January 24, almost a month after the original date.
The Libya’s High Elections Commission also called on the House of Representatives to set another date for the presidential election within 30 days as required by law.
It said that despite its technical readiness to organize the elections, it became impossible due to the difficulties it faced, the latest of which was the stage of “appeals, which represented the last turning point in the course of the electoral process, and served as a stop at which everyone’s efforts to complete this election”.
The order to postpone the elections was due to “the inadequacy of electoral legislation with regard to the role of the judiciary in appeals and electoral disputes, which has negatively affected the Commission’s decisions in defending its decisions, and created uncertainty that the Commission’s decisions were wrong in excluding some candidates who do not meet the requirements”.
The committee formed by the Libyan House of Representatives to follow up on the electoral process had earlier confirmed the “impossibility” of holding the parliamentary and presidential elections in the country on the scheduled date of December 24.
